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Experts: It’ll be tough to make a perjury charge against Holder stick

“There’s a difference between searching someone — and getting access to their phone records and emails — and prosecuting someone,” said Darryl Brown, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School.

“Holder was saying I haven’t signed off on charging this reporter with a crime, but he left out the fact that he had signed off on a warrant to search this reporter and maybe they were searching for evidence to prosecute someone else.

“There’s nothing necessarily contradictory about the fact that he has approved the warrant to search the reporter, and also claimed to have not signed off on a prosecution of the reporter,” Brown said.

FBI Director Robert Mueller, under questioning from Republicans last week, told the Judiciary committee that that labeling a target of an investigation as a criminal co-conspirator does not indicate a desire to prosecute them.

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FBI Director Robert Mueller, under questioning from Republicans last week, told the Judiciary committee that that labeling a target of an investigation as a criminal co-conspirator does not indicate a desire to prosecute them.

Even though that’s exactly what is stated in the warrant. Does labeling them a flight risk indicate a desire to prosecute? Or is this all really just a desire to persecute?

“There’s nothing necessarily contradictory about the fact that he has approved the warrant to search the reporter, and also claimed to have not signed off on a prosecution of the reporter,” Brown said.

Bullshit. He signed off on an application for a warrant that claimed Rosen was guilty of breaking the law. If he’s not going to prosecute Rosen if the searches produce evidence of a crime then the application for the warrant is an abuse of process and a fraud on the Court.

…the government was required to establish that there was probable cause to believe that the reporter had committed or was committing a criminal offense to which the needed materials related,” wrote Holder.

But there was no intent to prosecute him? Either Holder was lying in his testimony, or he was lying in the warrant application for the purpose of gathering political intelligence on Enemies of the Obama Crime Family.

The problem is that Eric Holder would be responsible for prosecuting the perjury case against Eric Holder, and if that prosecution is carried out with the level of incompetence that we have come to expect from anything Eric Holder does, it is sure to fail.